E! is continuing its push into awards ceremonies.
The Versant-owned network has picked up the rights to air the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards. It will air the ceremony, which is hosted by Traitors host Alan Cumming, on Sunday, February 22 at 8pm. It will not air the event live given that it is set in London and will run earlier in the day across the pond.
The cable network has taken over the rights from BritBox, which aired the event for the last couple of years.
E! is already the home of the Critics Choice Awards and is known for its red carpet coverage of other major ceremonies.
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The BAFTA Film Awards ceremony will be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London and will air live on the BBC in the UK.
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One Battle After Another leads the pack with 14 nominations including Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay. Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie came into the BAFTA nominations stage hot with 16 longlist mentions, the most ever recorded for a film. The 14 nominations is the second-highest haul recorded by a film after Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, which landed 16 in 1983. The King’s Speech, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon also landed 14 BAFTA noms. Each of those films, excluding Crouching Tiger, won Best Film.
Sinners landed 13 BAFTA nominations. The film’s haul includes Best Director and Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler. Michael B. Jordan landed his first BAFTA nomination in the Best Actor category, and Manchester native Wunmi Mosaku landed a Best Actress nomination.
Trailing the two Warner Bros titles are Hamnet and Marty Supreme, with 11 nominations. Paul Mescal and Timothée Chalamet are both Best Actor nominees, and both Chloé Zhao and Josh Safdie are Best Director nominees.
Frankenstein and Sentimental Value both clocked eight nominations, while Bugonia and surprise British box office hit I Swear clocked five nominations. Other well-represented British titles include The Ballad of Wallis Island and Pillion, which both landed three nominations.
Zac Ntim contributed to this story.